Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, arrives at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna, who names him imperial poet.
- 1445 – Printing press developed in Europe
Works published
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1449:
- Amoryus and Cleopes, poem by John Metham, English adaptation of the Pyramus and Thisbe narrative from Ovid‘s Metamorphoses
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1440:
- Lorenzo de' Medici, born January 1 (died 1492), Italian banker, politician, patron of the arts and poet who wrote in his native Tuscan language
- Martial d'Auvergne (died 1500), French
- Hans Folz born sometime from 1435 to this year (died 1513), German
- Blind Harry, also known as "Henry the Minstrel", born about this year (died 1492), Scottish makar (poet)
- Kabir (died 1518), mystic poet and saint of India
- Lorenzo Lippi (of Cole) (died 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Jorge Manrique (died 1479), Spanish poet
- Paolo Marsi (died 1484), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Molla, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla (died 1530), Indian poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman
- Ludovico Pontico born about this year (died 1520), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Giorgio Sisgoreo born about this year (died c. 1510), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Francesco Uberti (humanist) (died 1518), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
1441:
- Mir Ali Shir Nava'i (died 1501), Persian or Turkish[3] poet and scholar
1442:
- Amerigo Corsini (died 1501), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Pietro Antonio Piatti born about this year (died after 1508), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
1443:
1444:
- Pandolfo Collenuccio (died 1504), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
1445:
- Cantalicio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Bartolomeo Fonzio born about this year (died 1513), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
1446:
- Domizio Calderini (died 1478), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Ippolita Maria Sforza (died 1484), Italian noblewoman and writer
- Robert Wydow (died 1505), English poet, church musician, and religious figure
1447:
- Baptista Mantuanus, also known as "Battista Mantovano" and "Johannes Baptista Spagnolo" (died 1516), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist and Latin-language poet
1448:
- Johannes von Soest (died 1506), German composer, theorist and poet
1449:
- Quinto Emiliano Cimbriaco born about this year (died 1499), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Antonio Geraldini born about this year (died 1489), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
- Aldo Manuzio (died 1515), Italian, Latin-language poet[2]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
1440:
- Cuacuauhtzin (born 1410), Aztec lord and poet in the Pre-Columbian nahua world
- Nund Reshi (born 1377), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
1442:
- Nguyễn Trãi (born 1388), Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician and tactician
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1444:
- Andreu Febrer died about this year (born c. 1375), Catalan Spanish translator of the Divine Comedy[4]
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- Vidyapati, also known as Vidyapati Thakur and called Maithil Kavi Kokil "the poet cuckoo of Maithili", died about this year (born c. 1352), Indian, Maithili-language poet and Sanskrit writer
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- ^ Terry, Arthur, Companion to Catalan Literature, p 33, Boydell & Brewer, 2003, ISBN 0-85566-089-9, ISBN 978-0-85566-089-5, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
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